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		TazeTSchnitzel on April 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way Interesting that they used computers to make them. It seems obvious in hindsight; player piano music is digital!

userbinator on April 12, 2014 [–]

Also interesting that we had digital data storage, in the form of punched cards and tape, decades before digital computers.

vajrabum on April 12, 2014 | [–]

Longer than that. The Jaquard loom was invented in 1801 and the player piano was first demonstrated in 1876.

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